The Apistophilon; A Nemesis of Faith

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... The Apistophilon The Devotee: I Ere Time was born there was but empty space, And gloomy darkness filled the utmost place; But when God's spirit brooded o'er the deep, Then shone the light made splendent by His Grace. II God hung the earth within the ambient air, And gave to land and sea their proper share; Then sat He on the circle of the earth, And bade the barren dust a harvest bear. Ill Then fish and bird and brute of ev'ry kind Created were by fiat of His mind, And when He breathed the breath of life in man The conscious soul was then in him confined. IV After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female, after his own image, having the law of God written in their hearts, and the power to fulfill it; and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will, which was subject to change. Beside this law written in their hearts they received a command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Westminster Confession, Chap. 4, Sec. 2. V Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation. Westminster Confession, Chap. 6, Sec. 1, 3. VI For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. I Peter 3:18. IV His fated purpose better to fulfill, God gave to man that priceless gift, free-will;...